God bless the internet. Star Wars The Force Awakens has been on general release for less than a week, and already the online fandom has kicked into creative high gear. Though the film is almost entirely devoid of romance – much like A New Hope before it – fans have latched onto the relationship between John Boyega's stormtrooper-turned-rebel Finn and Oscar Isaac's rakish pilot Poe Dameron.

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It's undeniably one of the film's key dynamics, but the good people of Tumblr have shone a light on Finn and Poe as the bona fide love story they clearly are.

Let's take a look at the evidence (but only if you've already seen the film, of course).

1. Their meeting is the catalyst for everything

Had Finn and Poe's paths never crossed on the First Order ship, none of The Force Awakens would have happened. Traumatised by the massacre on Jakku, Finn defects from the dark side and helps the captured Poe to escape, whereupon they share this lovely bit of bonding banter:

Poe: "Why would you help me?"

Finn: "Because it's the right thing to do."

Poe: "You need a pilot."

Finn: "…I need a pilot."

But little did he know how much he needed a pilot…

2. Poe gives Finn his name

Perhaps because it's hard to imagine shouting out "FN-2187" in a moment of passion, Poe wastes no time in giving his new soulmate companion a more catchy name. And Finn loves it immediately, of course.

Brokeback Falcon, anyone? Though he's only known Poe for maybe two hours by this point, Finn is clearly distraught by his apparent death when they crash land.

So much so that when he finds Poe's jacket in the wreckage of their escape ship, he puts it on. It's not like he needed the extra insulation - he was in the desert!

4. Their reunion is the film's most adorable moment not involving BB-8

Though the original plan was for Poe to genuinely die in the crash, he makes a triumphant return on the planet Takodana – just in time to save Finn's from the First Order. And they're so happy to see each other that they literally run into each other's arms.

5. "It looks good on you."

And then this happens. We're not saying a heterosexual guy can't tell another heterosexual guy that his jacket is fly - but when Finn tries to give Poe his jacket back and Poe refuses because it looks so good on him, the subtext's all in the roguish smile and twinkling eyes. Or maybe it's all in Oscar Isaac's inherent sexual magnetism. Either way.

6. Finn and Rey aren't a thing

Sure, Finn spends a lot of time trying to be chivalrous towards Daisy Ridley's wonderfully unimpressed Rey ("Why do you keep taking my hand?"), but there's not much of a spark there. Maybe that's because Lucasfilm are going for the slow burn – Han and Leia's romance wasn't explicit until The Empire Strikes Back, after all – or maybe it's because Finn only has eyes for his pilot.

7. It's about time big budget Hollywood acknowledged that not everyone is straight

The Force Awakens is the most diverse Star Wars movie yet, which is admittedly damning with faint praise. The fact that not one of the movie's three new heroes is a white man shouldn't be so noteworthy, but a quick glance back at Marvel and DC's big screen track records will remind you why it is.

So in this new and more enlightened galaxy far, far away, isn't it about time we acknowledged that not everybody is straight? Romance is never going to be all-important to the Star Wars movies, but after all the time we spent watching Anakin and Padme moon about staring at the sand, surely there's room in Episode VIII for what could be a genuinely groundbreaking first for blockbuster cinema?